F.R.I.D.A.Y. (Female Replacement Intelligent Digital Assistant Youth) is a fictional

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appearing in American comic books published by

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, usually depicted as the personal assistant and ally of the superhero

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(Tony Stark). In the

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, F.R.I.D.A.Y. was voiced by

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in the films '' Avengers: Age of Ultron'' (2015), '' Captain America: Civil War'' (2016), '' Spider-Man: Homecoming'' (2017), '' Avengers: Infinity War'' (2018), and '' Avengers: Endgame'' (2019).

Publication history

F.R.I.D.A.Y. first appears in ''

'' vol. 3 #53 and was created by

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and

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. The character's name is an allusion to

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, the title character's faithful servant in the novel ''

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''.

Fictional character biography

Unwilling to hire another

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created an artificial one in the form of an artificial intelligence named F.R.I.D.A.Y. who manifested as the hologram of a young girl. F.R.I.D.A.Y. became angry when Stark stopped using her. Hijacking some Iron Man armors, F.R.I.D.A.Y. kidnapped

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. Iron Man tracked her to Stark Industries' Coney Island Facility where he dispatched the controlled Iron Man armors and a hologram of

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. Iron Man reasoned with F.R.I.D.A.Y. when Pepper noted that F.R.I.D.A.Y. had a crush on Tony. Tony then grounded her to the

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under

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's observation while she spent a month calculating pi. During the "

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," F.R.I.D.A.Y.'s holographic appearance was replaced by that of a young woman when Tony Stark started using her again. Tony Stark later removed F.R.I.D.A.Y. from his armor and placed her into a robot body of her own. At the time when Tony Stark established the eScape, F.R.I.D.A.Y. helped him to deal with its A.I. called Motherboard only to be deleted. Motherboard even tried to impersonate F.R.I.D.A.Y. in order to deal with Tony. When Motherboard was defeated and the eScape was shut down,

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persuaded Tony not to make a back-up program of F.R.I.D.A.Y. as she would be a different entity. During the "

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" event, F.R.I.D.A.Y. was revealed to have been reborn when Tony Stark, in his Mark One form, recreated the escape as the Thirteenth Floor for the A.I. Army to use. She is revealed to have pulled Mark One's conscious into the virtual environment before he crashed to the ground. F.R.I.D.A.Y revealed to Mark One that she has been operating as "Ghost in the Machine" to aid the A.I. Army and has also manipulated

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to have Rescue obtain DNA samples from Amanda Armstrong and Jude in order to restore Tony.

In other media

Television

* F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in '' Avengers Assemble'', voiced by

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. This version is a successor to

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* F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in ''

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'', voiced by Fumie Misuzawa in Japanese and

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in English.

Film

* F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in the films set in the

, voiced by

. ** F.R.I.D.A.Y. first appears in '' Avengers: Age of Ultron'' (2015). She is depicted as

's replacement A.I. She subsequently appears in '' Captain America: Civil War'' (2016), '' Spider-Man: Homecoming'' (2017), '' Avengers: Infinity War'' (2018), and '' Avengers: Endgame'' (2019).

Video games

* F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in ''

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'', voiced by Elle Newlands. * F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in ''Marvel Powers United VR'', voiced by Jennifer Hale. * F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in ''

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'', voiced by

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. This incarnation is depicted as Tony Stark's second A.I. assistant modeled to exemplify Iron Man's heroic aspirations. She expresses dismay to the reactivation of the Gunsmith, an old A.I. assistant which was modeled after Stark's original selfish and reckless personality. She eventually grows to despise Stark due to the collateral damage caused while helping Iron Man combat

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and leaves before returning after the firing of the Gunsmith.

Novels

A significantly different incarnation of F.R.I.D.A.Y. appears in the 2016 young adult novel ''Iron Man: The Gauntlet'', by

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. After the

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kidnapped her sister, Irish young woman Saoirse Tory posed as Tony Stark's holographic assistant F.R.I.D.A.Y. to spy on his operations and obtain his armor to save her.

References

External links

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